UMNIK Сompetition

According to the results of the XIV International Conference of Students and Young Scientists "Prospects of Fundamental Sciences Development", the best scientific reports (if made in presentia) will be recommended for further participation in the semifinal selection of Umnik competition.

UMNIK program of Innovation Support Fund is intended to support young scientists striving for fulfilling themselves through innovative activities and to stimulate mass involvement of young people in scientific and technical activities, as well as to encourage young scientists and specialists to create small innovative enterprises required for commercialization of the scientific development results.

The thematic directions of the UMNIK program are as follows:
D1. Information Technology
D2. Medicine of the Future
D3. Advanced Materials and Technologies of their Development
D4. New equipment and hardware systems
D5. Biotechnology

You can become a participant if you are an individual at the age of 18-30 inclusively, a citizen of the Russian Federation and have not won UMNIK grant before.